Garud stood trembling.
Every breath felt heavier than iron.
His muscles burned as if molten metal flowed through his veins.
Gravity Multiplier: ×25
His Divine Power slowly ticked upward.
Divine Power: 3
He did not know.
He could not know—
That every drop of divine energy he released inside the gate was leaking into reality.
THE DEMON GOD MOVES
Far beyond human perception—
Beyond space, beyond stars—
A throne of black obsidian cracked.
A presence opened its eyes.
Six crimson pupils rotated slowly in the darkness.
"So… Shiva has chosen a heir."
The Demon God smiled.
That smile alone shattered dimensions.
"Then let the world become a battlefield."
He raised one clawed finger.
And pressed it downward.
THE FIRST CHANGE
The sky screamed.
Across the world—
In cities, villages, forests, oceans—
Reality tore open.
Black cracks appeared in the air, like shattered glass.
From those cracks—
Gates emerged.
Some small, flickering weakly.
Others massive, ancient, radiating terror.
Global System Announcement:
Demon Gates Activated
Difficulty: Varies
People looked up in horror.
Phones stopped working.
Satellites fell from orbit.
Airplanes lost control.
Then—
The ground exploded.
THE RISE OF TOWERS
From beneath continents—
Stone spires erupted from the earth.
Ancient runes burned across their surfaces.
Some towers were short and broken.
Some pierced the clouds.
Some scraped the edge of space itself.
Tower Classification:
F-Rank Tower — Beginner Trial
E–C Rank Towers — Combat Survival
B–A Rank Towers — Nation-Level Threat
S-Rank Towers — World-End Structures
SS / God-Rank Towers — Unknown
Entire cities vanished beneath rising towers.
Mountains split apart.
The world map became meaningless overnight.
THE AWAKENING
As demon gates opened—
People screamed.
Then some collapsed.
Then some changed.
A young girl in Japan opened her eyes—
Fire danced around her fingers.
A soldier in Russia felt his bones harden into steel.
A farmer in India dropped to his knees as glowing symbols burned into his arms.
"Awakening Detected."
Class Assigned.
System Interface Online.
Humanity was no longer ordinary.
Hunters.
Awakened.
Chosen—or cursed.
But for every awakened human—
Ten demons crossed over.
THE FIRST SLAUGHTER
Cities burned.
Low-tier demons poured from beginner gates.
Governments fired weapons—
Bullets bounced off demon skin.
Missiles did nothing.
Panic spread faster than fire.
"This is the end—!"
"Gods have abandoned us!"
"Run—!"
Above it all—
The Demon God watched.
"Grow, little insects."
"Despair makes the finest fertilizer."
THE SILENT HEIR
Back inside the gate—
Garud collapsed after another brutal session.
His body repaired itself again.
Divine Power: 4
He had no idea—
That the world had begun revolving around him.
That gates appeared because of his awakening.
That towers rose because divine energy leaked into reality.
That the Demon God had marked Earth—
As a war zone.
Garud clenched his fists in his sleep.
I must get stronger…
Outside—
The world screamed.